The New Jim Crow

Legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that the United States did not end its racial caste system but merely redesigned it. Through the war on drugs and mass incarceration, she contends, millions of Black men have been branded felons and stripped of rights in ways that echo the Jim Crow era. Rigorous and impassioned, the book reframed the national conversation on race and criminal justice and became a modern classic. Mark Zuckerberg included it in his A Year of Books reading challenge.